Wagon tongue hound



WAGON TONGUE HOUND Filed July 14, 1930 ze 26 /3 24 e 29 Patented Oct. 27, 1931 UNTED STATES HENRY J'. HEIDER, OF CARROLL, IOWA WAGON 'roncrun` HoUND Application led July 14,

My invention relates to that class of wagon tongue hounds in which the tongue hound is connected to the tongue in such manner that it may be adjusted to accurately lit the wagon hounds of different sizes and shapes.

In the various makes of wagon hounds and wagon vtongues the hounds are of various sizes and shapes and are presented at different degrees of angularity relative to the tongue and the tongue itself varies in size and shape and the sides ofthe tongue are not always parallel.

It is the object of my present invention to provide an adjustable wagon hound so ar- F ranged that it may be readily, quickly and easily .fitted accurately to the wagon hounds and tongues of the ordinary sizes and shapes, and particularly so that they may be fitted to tongues in which the sides are not parallel.

A further object is to provide a device of this character of simple, durable and inexpensive construction that may be readily, quickly and easily adjusted and then permanently .fitted to a wagon tongue and hound. f

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of the various parts of the device, whereby the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 shows a top or plan View of hounds embodying my invention and fitted to a'wagon tongue; and

Figure 2 shows a vertical sectional view on the dotted line 2-2 of Figure 1.

40, Referring to the accompanying drawings,

l have used the reference numeral 10 to indicate the wagon tongue. The tongue is provided with a. transverse slot 11 extended through the horizontal center of the tongue near its rear and rdesigned to receive a connecting pin 12 of ordinary construction to pivotally connect the tongue hounds with the wagon'tongue. A strap 13 is provided on the upper surface of the tongue having an opening 14 in its forward end for receiving i930. serial No. 467,654. l

the double tree pin, the draft being applied to the tongue at this'point. i Adjacent to each side of the tongue 10 and opposite from the opening 15 is a bracket late 16. Each of the said bracket plates has 55 a laterally extending flange. Pivotally connected to each kof the plates 16is a draft bar 18. The rear end of each of the bars 18 is pivotally connected to the central portionfof inwardly extending flanges 19 60v of hound bars 20. The hound bars 20-have openingsthrough which theconnecting pin 12 extends. Thebars 18 are pivotally connected to the flanges 19 by suitable yrivets 22,

or similar devices, mountednear theconnecting pin 12. l

The .forward end of each of the flanges 19 of the hound bars is providedy with slots 23 for receiving bolts 241mounted in thev draft bars 18,` so that theangularity of the hound 'I0 bars 2() may be varied relative to the longif tudinal axis of the tongue 10, and relative to the longitudinal axis of the draft bars 18, so that the hound bars 20 may be adjusted to fit the inner faces ofthe' Wagon hounds. The 75 slot 11 provides for any forward or rearward movement ofthe connecting kpin 12, due to the angular movement ofthe draft bars 18 as th adjustment is being made.;

For thepurpose of bracing the rear ends of the hound bars and for permitting them to be adjustedto accurately lit wagon hounds of di`erent sizes and shapes,` and also vtongues of different sizes and-shapes, I have provided the following mechanism:

On each side of the rear end of the tongue is an angle bar 25, one ange being extended vertically along the side of the tongue, and the other flange being extended horizontally flushfwith the top ofthe tongue. A bolt 26 90 ext-ends through both of these angle bars for firmly bolting it to the tongue, and the horizontally extending flanges are provided with slots 27 extended outwardly from the tongue. 93

Mounted on top of the horizontal flange of each angle bar is a brace bar 28, pivotally connected at its outer end by a rivet 29 with the adjacent hound bar. At its inner end the brace 28 has a number of alined openings 30 `l`00 to receive a bolt 31 which also extends through the slot 27.

By providing the two independent angle bars 25, they may obviously be accurately litted to the sides of a wagon tongue, regardless of the size of the tongue, and regardless of whether or not the sides of the tongue are parallel. These two angle bars are firmly held to the tongue by means of a single bolt. wWhen these angle bars are bolted to the tongue, the hound bars are then moved to position to accurately fit adjacent sides of the wagon hounds, and by providing the several openings 30 in the brace bars and the slot 27 in the angle bar, this adjustment may be made with great accuracy, and yet the device may be applied to a tongue and wagon hounds quickly and easily, and obviously when the parts are thus accurately fitted to the wagon tongue and hounds, the device will stand the strains and stresses to which it is ordinarily subjected.

In Figure 1 of the drawings I have shown by dotted lines the positions of the braces 28 when moved inwardly to adjust the device to wagon hounds that are relatively close together. With my improvement it does not matter whether the rear end of the tongue has its sides parallel or not, because obviously the angle bars need not project at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the tongue.

I claim as my invention:

.An improved wagon tongue hound comprising two angle bars, shaped to be fitted against the sides of a tongue with their upper flanges projected laterally from the sides of a tongue and substantially flush with the top of a tongue, a brace mounted on top of each angle bar, means for adjustably securing the brace to the angle bar, a wagon tongue hound memberpivotally connected to the outer ends of each of said braces, two bars each pivotally connected with one of the hound members near lthe central portion of the hound member and extended forwardly Y and inwardly, means for pivotally connecting each of said bars to a tongue, and means for adjustably connecting the forward end of each hound member to the central portion of each of said bars, for the purposes stated.

HENRY J. HEIDER. 

